In the shadow of good governance: an ethnography of civil service reform in Africa
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Erscheint: Oktober 2009 |
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| ISBN: | 9789004179820 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgements
vu
Glossary and abbreviations
Map of Malawi
χ
Introduction: Unpacking good governance
/
Civil servants as implementers and target population
/
The dysfunctional African state
3
Good governance as technology
5
Field sites
8
Studying up, follow the policy
9
Basic information about the civil service
11
Outline
14
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
/5
Banda s rule and the New Malawi
16
The results of two decades of structural adjustment
19
The civil service
—
from localisation to good governance
24
Constructing country ownership
28
Introduction
28
The emergence of a concept
30
Conditionality and country ownership
34
The
normaţi
vity
of numbers
40
The discovery of the C word
42
Conclusions
47
The implementation process
49
Deconstructing policy implementation
49
Retrenchment of employees made redundant
51
The introduction of new housing allowances
55
Increasing fragmentation of the civil service
60
Conclusions
68
Eroding salaries and doing business
70
The African entrepreneurial spirit
70
The meaning of having a job in the civil service
73
How to make ends meet
83
Winners and losers of economic liberalisation
89
Conclusions
97
6
Distance
saves me
99
Introduction
99
Kubwerera kumudzi
101
Education and social stratification
110
The importance of associations ill
The nature of kinship duties
115
Conclusions
120
7
THE
DEMOCRATISATION
OF APPROPRIATION
122
Introduction
122
Bad politics
124
The office mores
-
a parallel social and moral order ISO
A primoridial public sphere Or a patchwork of moralities?
135
Conclusions
139
8
Conclusions: The state in society
ni
The paradoxical policies of the World Bank and the IMF
¡42
A note on theorising the
postcolonial
state
148
References
/5/
Index
163
vi
In the Shadow of Good Governance traces the implementation of the
good governance agenda in Malawi from the loan documents signed
by the representatives of the government and the
Bretton
Woods
institutions to the individual experiences of civil servants who
responded in unforeseen ways to the reform measures. Ethnographic
evidence gathered in government offices, neighbourhoods and the
private homes of civil servants living in Malawi s urban and peri-
urban areas undermines the common perception of a disconnect
between state institutions and society in Africa. Instead, the book
presents a comprehensive analysis of civil servants attempts to
negotiate the effects of civil service reform and economic crisis at
the turn of the 21st century.
Gerhard Anders (Ph.D.
2005)
is a senior lecturer at the Institute of
Social
&
Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich. His research
focuses on the anthropology of emergent regimes of global order in
the fields of criminal justice and development. He has published on
legal anthropology, international criminal justice, good governance
and corruption including the co-edited volume (with M. Nuijten)
Corruption and the Secret of Law (Ashgate,
2009).
The anthropology of the postcotonial state takes a major step forward
with Gerhard Anders outstanding study. His ethnographic insights into
the planning, implementation and manipulation of the civil service
reform in Malawi give food for thought well beyond the specific case
he writes
obout
No other study of the
1
990s good governance agenda
in Africa has accomplished Anders nuanced account of the lived
experience among civil servants caught up in the throes of change.
This is a landmark study that challenges facile generalizations about
corruption and the dysfunctional state in Africa.
Harri
Englund,
University of Cambridge
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